News
August 2008
14.08.08 I Sara Hughes awarded Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Berlin Residency 2008/9
Sara Hughes is the recipient of the 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The biennial 12-month residency provides an opportunity for visual artists to work on their approved project, gain professional development, build international networks and generally increase awareness of New Zealand visual arts. Excited to be offered the opportunity, Sara Hughes says she will use the residency to create a new body of work.
“I am interested in developing a project that examines the cultural and political context of the Olympics with specific reference to the Beijing Games (2008) and the Berlin Games (1937). I specifically want to investigate imagery and data relating to patterns of behaviour and configurations of spectacle and national identity as portrayed through the use of colour, consumerism and propaganda”.
Previous New Zealand recipients of the Creative New Zealand residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien are Peter Robinson (2000), Michael Stevenson (2002), Ronnie van Hout (2004) and Mladen Bizumic (2006).The Berlin residency is one of a number of international artist residencies offered by Creative New Zealand to provide opportunities for New Zealand artists to develop their practice and build international networks.
For more information please refer to www.creativenz.govt.nz
01.07.08 I Sara Hughes wins RIPE: Art & Australia Magazine Award
Sara Hughes was recently announced as the first New Zealand recipient of the RIPE:Art & Australia Magazine/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award. The award promotes the work of emerging artists, publishing an image of the winner's work on the back cover of Art & Australia magazine. RIPE recipients are further supported via the acquisition of at least one of their artworks to the Art & Australia Magazine Collection. Two artists are selected every six months. Artist entries are administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts Ltd (NAVA). For further information, visit the NAVA website:www.visualarts.net.au/grantsprizes/ripe
12.06.08 I Sara Hughes in MiNDFOOD magazine
MiNDFOOD Magazine spends '5 minutes with Sara Hughes' as she reveals the impetus for new works conceived during a year in the U.S. fulfilling two artist's residencies. Hughes will exhibit new paintings in 'Scales of Economy' at Gow Langsford opening July 1.
Of Deities and Mortals at the Christchurch Art Gallery
Recent works by Sara Hughes and Reuben Paterson are included in Of Deities and Mortals at the Christchurch Art Gallery, open from 16 November 2007 - 10 February 2008. Titled after a line in John Keats' poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, Of Deities or Mortals takes eight objects from the University of Canterbury's James Logie Memorial Collection of Greek artifacts, and invites eight contemporary New Zealand artists to create a response. For more information about the show and featured artists, visit the Christchurch Art Gallery or email info@gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz
2007
A new installation by Sara Hughes is on show at Te Manawa Gallery in Palmerston North until the 15 July. Entitled Flower Wall (2007), the work is comprised of thousands of brightly coloured hand-painted die-cut paper flowers, seamlessly blending technology and the hand-made. A comparable work entitled Flower Field(2007) can be viewed in the In Fluorescents show at Gow Langsford Gallery until 30 May.
The Big Stick Up, an installation by Hughes that was first seen at the Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales, has recently been installed at The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson. The exhibition runs from the 20 April - 10 June, 2007.
Hughes will also exhibit in a curated group show at Pataka Gallery from the 13 May - 12 August and will feature alongside Andrew McCleod, Kelcy Taratoa, Tim Thatcher and Gow Langsford Gallery artist, Darryn George. New Painting: Digital Age, curated by Helen Kedgley, highlights the reconciliation of digital technology with traditional painting techniques which are central to the practice of this group of influential young artists. The exhibition opens with a panel discussion with the artists on the 13th May 2007.
At the end of May, 2007, Hughes will take up a residency at the ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Programme) in New York as the recipient of the Paramount Prize in the Wallace Art Awards (2005). Following the ISCP residency she will take up another at The McColl Center for Visual Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, from January through April, 2008.
Sara Hughes: Artlink "Nine Great Artists"
The latest issue of Australia's Artlink magazine features an article on the work of Sara Hughes, as part of their "Nine Great Artists" lineup. The article focuses on Hughes' recent installation at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and is written by Rhana Devenport (Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery).